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Parsing Immigration Policy: Visa Integrity: The Next Frontier in Immigration Enforcement

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Politics, News

4.6632 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jessica Vaughan, the Center’s Director of Policy Studies, expands on her recent testimony before the U.S. House immigration subcommittee on “Restoring Integrity and Security to the Visa Process”. Under the Biden administration, the number of visa applications and issuances increased significantly, which created difficulties for vetting and […]

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0:00.0

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States, undetected, undocumented, unchecked,

0:10.0

and complete the dang fence.

0:13.0

This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.

0:18.0

Can't stone your bucket where you are. We come from France.

0:21.6

And I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrant.

0:25.6

They're coming in by the thousands.

0:26.6

Just unbelievable.

0:28.6

A wall is an immorality.

0:30.6

Who are you rooting for it?

0:32.6

Those masters of the universe are added again.

0:36.6

They're not sending their best. You maniac! You blow it up!

0:46.0

Welcome to parsing immigration policy, the podcast of the Center for Immigration Studies. My name

0:51.2

is Mark Ricorian, executive director of the center. And this week,

0:55.9

we're going to be talking about something I like to refer to as the next frontier in illegal

1:01.9

immigration, and that is people entering on visas. This isn't specifically about the issue of visa

1:08.9

overstays, which is the way it's ordinarily thought of.

1:12.3

In other words, not people jumping the border, but people coming in legally and then not leaving.

1:16.6

But it's really broader than that, and that is the whole visa system has real problems.

1:23.2

And there was a hearing recently entitled Restoring Integrity and Security to the Visa Process.

1:30.7

And our own Jessica Vaughn, Director of Policy Studies here at the center, was a witness.

1:36.4

And you can see her five-minute opening statement, which is all you're allowed in a hearing.

1:42.2

And then she had a longer written statement. Both of those are on the

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